RECOMMENDATIONS

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  Chicken in a jar

  Paul Bloxham serves a dramatic dinner party dish of chicken cooked in a preserving jar with a deluxe salsa verde and crisp slices of French sourdough bread

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  Lemongrad

  A zesty cocktail sweetened with elderflower cordial and spiked with vodka from Tristan Stephenson

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  Scallops with capers and cime di rape

  Arthur Potts Dawson cooks cime di rape, a variety of turnip greens with a bitter flavour, with simple herbed scallops

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  Griddled pork with leek and butterbean cassoulet

  Ben Ebrell combines juicy pork steaks with store cupboard butterbeans in a speedy mid-week supper for two.

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  Magic beans

  Allegra McEvedy prepares a toothsome mezze dish of green beans slowly cooked with plenty of garlic, herbs, and lemon juice

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  Saffron and cardamom rice trifle

  Cyrus Todiwala’s Anglo-Indian trifle combines rose and raspberry jelly with sponge soaked in vodka raspberries and a saffron and rice base

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  Barbecued vegetable antipasti

  Arthur Potts Dawson grills vegetables and mushrooms on the barbie for a lovely smokey note

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  Brie soup

  A warming cheese soup from The Vegetarian Society served with little cranberry toasts

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  Kozhi Melagu Veruval

  Atul Kochhar’s fried chicken dish is spicy with pepper and other Indian ingredients but is not chilli-hot

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  Mustard crust cottage pie

  Brian Turner cooks a frugal family favourite that feeds four for a fiver